About 10 years ago...Arlington made the restaurants and bars that didn't want to lose their customers that smoke, install seperate areas with special equipment to suck up any smoke...
I believe these were in the tens of thousands of dollars..
NOW, a new Mayor, who happens to be a medical doctor has decided that there will be NO smoking anywhere...and that is causing a big hoo-ha...especially since we have the ballpark for the Texas Rangers..and in a few years, the Dallas Cowboy stadium...
Mayor Cluck doesn't even want people to be able to smoke at any stadium bars/restaurants or outside in the stands..or EVEN have a designated smoking area OUTSIDE!!
NOW...I used to smoke...I quite about 15 years ago...but, I smoked for about 10 years..and grew up in a home where my parents both smoked like 3 packs a day, IN the house and car.
NONE of their children have ever had any breathing problems, asthma, colds...perfectly healthy, thank you very much.
I am not a smoker's advocate..far from it...BUT, I see the slippery slope here..and it is scary, IMHO>
The solution is for smokers to wrap their tobacco in flag paper.
This really is not an issue where smoking or not smoking is a requirement or indicative of a persons position. Smoking Democrats support the ban as much as non smoking RINO Republicans.
This is an issue of property rights and the right of a business to be free to conduct business as they see fit. If one does not like the atmosphere, there is nothing requiring them to be in there. Analogy, I would be totally uncomfortable and unhappy in a hip hop or mosh pit or Indian bar. Just because I do not like the music or the way people act, I cannot demand they change. Wait, now I can.
As it stands now, if I can get enough people to vote against any of these behaviors in establishments, I'm good to go. Another, how about homosexual bars? If the community opposes homosexual activity and behavior, there is nothing to stop a community from imposing restrictions against it in establishments since private property rights have been, again, abridged.
Laura Miller is a disaster.
I am a smoker's advocate. I don't smoke, but the DP does. It's legal and he has never 'blown smoke in anyone's face,'
Isn't that what the nazis always say: I'm tired of people blowing smoke in my face. No one has ever blown smoke in my face, although I think the DP has wanted to at times.